Public bug reported: If you install the nvidia-375 package without the nvidia-persistenced package, you still get an enabled nvidia-persistenced.service that fails to start up on boot. To fix this, /lib/systemd/system/nvidia- persistenced.service (and associated maintainer script snippets) should be moved to the nvidia-persistenced package.
$ systemctl status nvidia-persistenced.service ● nvidia-persistenced.service - NVIDIA Persistence Daemon Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nvidia-persistenced.service; static; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2017-05-24 03:51:28 EDT; 7min ago Process: 1281 ExecStopPost=/bin/rm -rf /var/run/nvidia-persistenced (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 1279 ExecStart=/usr/bin/nvidia-persistenced --user nvidia-persistenced --no-persistence-mode --verbose (code=exited, status=203/EXEC) CPU: 1ms May 24 03:51:28 change-mode systemd[1]: Starting NVIDIA Persistence Daemon... May 24 03:51:28 change-mode systemd[1279]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/bin/nvidia-persistenced: No such file or directory May 24 03:51:28 change-mode systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=203 May 24 03:51:28 change-mode systemd[1]: Failed to start NVIDIA Persistence Daemon. May 24 03:51:28 change-mode systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Unit entered failed state. May 24 03:51:28 change-mode systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. ** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-375 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: nvidia-persistenced (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-375 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1693123 Title: /lib/systemd/system/nvidia-persistenced.service belongs in nvidia- persistenced package, not nvidia-375 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-375/+bug/1693123/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs